Garcia plays on four tracks on this album. The musicians on these tracks are;

All Cried Out;

Link Wray - vocals and guitar

Tom Salisbury - piano, backing vocals

Jerry Garcia - pedal steel guitar

Chris Michie - acoustic guitar, backing vocals

John Dzerigian - electric guitar

Greg Douglass - electric guitar

Kip Maercklein - bass

Rick Schlosser - drums

Jules Broussard - tenor saxaphone

Jack Schroer - saxophone

Tom Harrell - trumpet

Jules Rowell - valve trombone

Nate Rubin - violin

Mimi Dye - viola

Tom Heimberg - viola

Teresa Adams - cello

Barbara Mauritz - backing vocals

Dorothy Morrison - backing vocals

Diane Vaughns - backing vocals

Tucson, Arizona;

Link Wray - vocals and guitar

Tom Salisbury - piano, backing vocals

Jerry Garcia - pedal steel guitar

Chris Michie - acoustic guitar, backing vocals

John Dzerigian - electric guitar

Kip Maercklein - bass

Rick Schlosser - drums

Shirley Coombs - backing vocals

Zella Hurd - backing vocals

Barbara Mauritz - backing vocals

Dorothy Morrison - backing vocals

Diane Vaughns - backing vocals

Riverbend;

Link Wray - vocals and guitar

Tom Salisbury - piano, backing vocals

Jerry Garcia - pedal steel guitar

Chris Michie - electric guitar, backing vocals

John Dzerigian - electric guitar

Kip Maercklein - bass

Rick Schlosser - drums

Shirley Coombs - backing vocals

Zella Hurd - backing vocals

Barbara Mauritz - backing vocals

Dorothy Morrison - backing vocals

Diane Vaughns - backing vocals

Walk Easy, Walk Slow,

Link Wray - vocals and guitar

Tom Salisbury - clavinet

Jerry Garcia - electric guitar

Chris Michie - electric guitar

Kip Maercklein - bass

Rick Schlosser - drums

Jules Broussard - tenor saxaphone

Jack Schroer - saxophone

Tom Harrell - trumpet

Jules Rowell - valve trombone

Credits

Producer - Thom Jefferson Kaye

Horn and string arrangements - Tom Salisbury

Recording and mixing engineer - Mallory Earl

Assistant engineer - Dan Osoke

Technical advisors - Vernon Wray, Doug Wray

Album design and photography - Bruce Steinberg

Art Direction - Ron Nackman

Recorded at Wally Heider's Studio, San Francisco

Notes

A number of the tracks on this album were included on the Link Wray compilation double CD, Guitar Preacher, The Polydor Years. The essay in the booklet that comes with the compilation provides a brief comments on the recording of Be What You Want To;

When Link came back to Polydor, it was with Be What You Want To in 1973. [Bob] Feldman insists that, had he not been ousted from the picture, the second album would have been a supergroup session, and that Polydor's parent company would have bankrolled an accompanying movie. Then someone had the idea of recording Link in Nashville with the Allmans, but he ended up in San Francisco with producer Thomas Jefferson Kaye. To that point, Kaye's chief claim to fame was that he had produced Loudon Wainwright's Dead Skunk.

After the back-beyond-basics of the first album, Kaye went to the other end of the production spectrum, opting for a very full production with an assortment of rent-a-guests like Commander Cody, Jerry Garcia and David Bromberg. Like Link Wray, Be What You Want To also stood a chance of breaking through, although for different reasons. It was very much of its time in a Leon Russell-ish kind of way. Asked about it later, Link was dismissive. "It was commercial," he told Sounds magazine in London, "but it wasn't me. When people buy a Link Wray album, I want them to buy it because it's Link Wray, not because Commander Cody's on it.

In an interview in 1997 Link Wray spoke about his time with Polydor and why musicians like Garcia played on his LPs at that time;

That was 'cause I had a big record company then, and they wanted to put all them big superstars on it so they could sell records . . . And none of them people wanted to get paid for doin' it. Like Jerry Garcia, he said, 'I love Link Wray. I just come to play, I don't even give a shit about gettin' paid.' And it was the same with John Cipollina from Quicksilver Messenger Service, Boz Scaggs, Commander Cody and all them guys who was on those records. They just come out and supported me and said, 'We really love your music, Link. We was listenin' to you when we was learnin' to play gee-tar.' And the record company ate that up.